function cpuinfo_physicalcores()
    maxcore = -1
    for line in eachline("/proc/cpuinfo")
        if startswith(line, "core id")
            maxcore = max(maxcore, parse(Int, split(line, ':')[2]))
        end
    end
    maxcore < 0 && error("failure to read core ids from /proc/cpuinfo")
    return maxcore + 1
end

function set_parallel_mthread(N::Int, workers::Bool)
    if N > cpuinfo_physicalcores()
        warn("Number of specified cores exceeds the physical core count. Performance may suffer.")
    end

    if workers
        addprocs(N)
        info("Using $N cpus in @parallel code.")
    end
    info("Using $(Threads.nthreads()) threads in @threads code.")
    BLAS.set_num_threads(N)
    info("Using $N threads in BLAS.")

end

function set_parallel_mthread(parsed_args::Dict; workers=false)
    if parsed_args["cpus"] == nothing
        N = cpuinfo_physicalcores()
    else
        N = parsed_args["cpus"]
    end

    set_parallel_mthread(N, workers)
end